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The Prophet of God ﷺ prophesised that in the End Times, Muslims would struggle to hold on to their faith and practice of it – akin to holding onto a hot burning coal. Whether university, on social-media apps and websites like TikTok and Youtube, young Muslims face an unprecedented challenge on their faith. Join us as we discuss:
• The fragility of the modern assault on Islam
• How Muslims can build strong rational and psychological defences to protect their faith
• The living tradition in Islam of intellectual debate and discussion
• How we can take our greatest thinkers and make them relevant in the modern age

We will be hosting renowned international debater and training Muslim scholar Muhammad Hijab along with our own Shaykh Shams Tameez, a student of some of the most prestigious scholars of Islamic theology in the Muslim world today.
There will a clear opportunity for Q and A, and the event is open to all

Biographies
Mohammed Hijab
Mohammed Hijab is an author, comparative-religionist and philosopher of religion. He is the co-founder of Sapience Institute and is a researcher and instructor for the organisation. He has a BA in Politics and master’s degree in History. He has also acquired a second master’s in Islamic Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Hijab has also completed a third master’s degree in Applied Theology from the University of Oxford where he focussed on the Philosophy of Religion in applied settings. Hijab is now doing his PhD in the Philosophy of Religion on the Contingency Argument for God’s existence.
In addition, Hijab has undergone formal training in Islamic studies, with a focus on the Qur’an, Prophetic traditions, and legal reasoning. Hijab has completed Islamic seminary courses and been given formal permission to relay Islamic knowledge on selected Islamic fields. Hijab is one of the very few Muslim public figures who deal comparatively with political, philosophical and theological issues and as such has amassed a following of many subscribers on YouTube in English and Arabic

Shaykh Shams
Shaykh Shams Tameez is a graduate of UK-based seminary Jamia al-Karam. He then completed the Diploma at the Cambridge Muslim College in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership. After this he worked as an Imam at Aylesbury Mosque in Buckinghamshire before embarking on further studies in Istanbul at the Abu Hanifa Institute. He has also been fortunate to study with great scholars from Syria currently residing in Istanbul such as Shaykh Khalid al-Kharsa, Shaykh Adnan Darwesh, Shaykh Ridwan al-Kaheel and Shaykh Muhammad Shuqayr and Turkish scholars such as Mulla Yavus. He then travelled to Tarim in Yemen for one year where he was blessed to study at Dar al-Mustafa. He returned to the UK and completed a Master degree at SOAS University in Islamic studies. He is currently pursing a PhD at Ibn Haldun University focusing on Islamic theology along with studying at the IKAM seminary specialising in the Islamic rational sciences.